EXAM PRACTICE 5

PART ONE: PHONOLOGY

I. Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently to the others.
1. A. leave B. read C. ready D. pleased
2. A. stay B. vacation C. last D. late
3. A. study B. subject C. much D. music
4. A. children B. school C. cheap D. choose
5. A. exercises B. games C. marbles D. earphones
6. A. carved B. wanted C. served D. controlled
7. A. horrible B. hour C. house D. here
8. A. teenager B. together C. guess D. ground
9. A. dairy B. air C. pair D. sail
10. A. classroom B. moon C. book D. afternoon
II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.
1. A. skating B. unique C. donate D. perform
2. A. composer B. performance C. delicious D. interview
3. A. homeless B. sickness C. sunburn D. support
4. A. photography B. curriculum C. independent D. originate
5. A. difficult B. volunteer C. different D. dangerous
PART TWO: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
I. Choose the best answer.
1. Our city’s dwellers are offered many _____.
A. scenery B. air C. facilities D. money
2. If you do not go, neither _____ I.
A. won’t B. shall C. shan’t D. did
3. This is the boy _____ Tim.
A. calling B. calls C. called D. is called
4. Don’t let your child ____ with matches.
A. play B. playing C. to play D. plays
5. I prefer tea _____ coffee.
A. rather B. than C. more D. to
6. Our teacher asked us _____ we liked to go camping in the coming festival.
A. whether if B. if C. what D. if whether
7. When passing Truong Tien Bridge, tourists often stop _____ pictures.
A. take B. took C. taking D. to take
8. I always remember ______ off the light before going to bed.
A. turn B. turning C. to turn D. turned
9. The ______ of the traffic sometimes keeps people awake at night.
A. noisy B. noise C. noiseless D. noisily
10. The fresh air in the countryside is good for our ____.
A. healthy B. health C. healthful D. healthily
II. Give the correct forms of the words in brackets to complete the passage.
It’s a (1. marvel) __________ idea for children to do some cooking at an early age. Generally (2. speak)
__________, most children can’t wait to help in the kitchen and love getting involved in the (3. prepare) __________
of their meals. They should be (4. courage) __________ to do so. It’s important to show them how to do things (5.
correct) __________ they should not be criticized too much. Although the finished result not be quite to your (6. like)
__________, the young cook will undoubtedly it quite the (7. taste) __________ food he or she has ever eaten.
Kitchens can, of course, be (8. danger) __________ places and so absolute (9. important) __________ of keeping
an eye on the children at all times cannot be emphasized too heavily. Sharp knives, for example, should be avoided
until children are old enough to handle them (10. safe) __________.
III. Give the correct forms of the words in brackets.
1. This bicycle (be) __________ in our family for 14 years now. My father (use) __________ it for the first 5 years,
my brother (ride) __________ it for the next fire, and I (have) __________ it for the last four.
2. When I (see) __________ you yesterday, you (sit) __________ in a cafe.
3. We (go) __________ for a long summer holiday in a month. We (have) __________ a good time (swim)
__________ in the sea.
4. If I won the first prize in a lottery, I (take) __________ a long trip round the world.
IV. Put in suitable prepositions
a. The house is (1) ______ fire. Call (2) ______ help!
b. We walk (3) ______ our leg.
 c. Jane is a beautiful girl (4) ______ dark hair.
d. (5) ______ night, we can see millions (6) ______ stars (7) ______ our heads.
e. The tractors are very useful (8) ______ farmers because they can take (9) ______ the work of many people.
f. I prefer living in the city (10) ______ living in the country.
V. Choose the underlined part that needs correcting and correct it.
1. Each year, fire destroys homes and injure children because someone plays with matches.
A B C D
2. He thinks that talking on the phone was a little bit time-consuming.
A B C D
3. There are some problems we only can talk to our friends, not our parents or siblings.
A B C D
4. We don’t want to go out tonight because the weather is rain.
A B C D
5. We are having a birthday party in Saturday night. Would you like to come?
A B C D
6. The computer didn’t work because the plug comes out of the socket.
A B C D
7. I am going out on Tuesday evening but that I’m not busy the following evening.
A B C D
8. Do you hear any noise when the strange men broke into your house?
A B C D
9. She thinks disobeying parents and teachers are not good.
A B C D
10. He was finishing his drawing when the waiter looked at it and ran out the restaurant
A B C D
PART THREE: READING
I. Read the article and circle the letter next to the word that best fits each space.
Almost a hundred thousand people were killed and half million homes destroyed as a result of an earthquake in
Tokyo in 1923. The earthquake began a minute before noon when the inhabitants of Tokyo (1) their midday meals.
Thousands of stoves were overturned as soon as the earth (2) to shake. As a result, small fires (3) everywhere and
quickly spread. The fire engines were prevented (4) to help because many of the roads (5) open. It was impossible
to use fire fighting equipment as most of the water pipes (6). Consequently, over ninety per cent of the damage (7)
by fire rather than by the collapse of buildings. Most of those (8) were not killed in the earthquake itself but in the fires
which followed.
1. A. cooked B. were cooking C. would cook D. had cooked
2. A. began B. was beginning C. used to begin D. was beginning
3. A. were breaking out B. would break out C. have broken out D. broke out
4. A. from going B. to go C. forgoing D. he went
5. A. had cracked B. cracking C. crack D. were cracking
6. A. would burst B. had burst C. have burst D. used to burst
7. A. caused B. was causing C. causing D. was caused
8. A. who died B. died C. they died D. dying
II. Read the following passage and answer if the statements below are true (T) or false (F).
A small store sold a lot of nice jewelry, and the owner was always very careful to prevent people from stealing it.
One day a thief came and tried to steal a beautiful necklace, but the owner of the store caught him immediately and
went to the telephone to call the police to come and arrest him. “Please don’t do that!” the thief saiD. “I have a wife
and three children at home. And I’ll pay for the necklace.” The owner of the store felt sorry for the man and he didn’t
want to have a lot of trouble with the police, so he accepted the man’s offer to pay for the necklace and went to
prepare a bill for it. But when he gave it to the thief, the man looked disturbed and said,” I wasn’t intending to get
anything as expensive as that. Do you have something cheaper?”
1. ......... The story mentioned a small store which sold beautiful jewelry.
2. ......... The owner of the store was not very careful with his jewelry.
3. ......... One day a young woman got into the store and tried to steal a bracelet.
4. ......... The owner of the store brought the woman to the police station.
5. ......... The thief said that he had a family to look after and promised to pay for the jewelry.
6. ......... The owner of the store felt sorry for the thief.
7. ......... The owner of the shop sold the jewelry to the thief.
8. ......... The thief asked for something more expensive.
PART FOUR: WRITING
I. Finish the second sentence with the same meaning as the first printed above
1. We still speak Italian at home, so I'm bilingual.
I'm bilingual .............................................................................................................................................................
2. I came to study business administration in London 2 years ago.
I have ......................................................................................................................................................................
3. I don't have a bigger problem than pronunciation.
My ...........................................................................................................................................................................
4. I started to learn English eight years ago.
I have ......................................................................................................................................................................
5. We ought to turn on the TV now.
It's time ...................................................................................................................................................................
6. I haven't seen her at this disco before.
It's ...........................................................................................................................................................................
7. The town was nearer than we thought.
The town wasn’t......................................................................................................................................................